Better to plant 10" or 12" trout?

[wormandbobber]

The Idaho study is nothing new....from the study PBH posted: "...survival of stocked trout has been shown to be related to size at stocking, with larger fish generally showing better survival and return to anglers (Burdick and Cooper 1956, Pycha and King 1967, Hansen and Stauffer 1971). Consequently, fishery managers have responded to low survival in southwestern Utah reservoirs by increasing the size and/or number of stocked fish, as well as adjusting stocking times." Although the study doesn't come out and say it explicitly, it is clear that it is more cost efficient for Utah hatcheries to raise fish to larger sizes for stocking in some reservoirs in order to see a better return in catch rates by anglers...